Such a scenario was modeled into the chemostat simulation.
By construction, \(\bar{\mathbb {V}}\)  was restricted only by known environmental constraints.
More interestingly, the chemostat constraints potentially determined \(\bar{\mathbb {V}}\)  in only two of the free dimensions, so \(\bar{\mathbb {V}}\)  was generally degenerated.
This degeneracy was not due to missing information, but because of the added stochasticity resembling the natural stochastic phenomena characteristics of cellular cultures [1]}, [2]}, [3]}, [4]}, [5]} in the absence of further constraints.
Indeed, in this case, \(ME\)  accurately describes the steady state \(\bar{{v}}\)  of the system (see results at Figure (REF )).
On the contrary, such a situation had catastrophic consequences for \(FBA\) .
In practice, it literally means that no further assumption (optimization) needs to be formulated for describing the properties of the system. All the required information was already contained in the metabolic spaces formulations.
